Dictionary entry details
• AROUSE (verb)
Meaning:
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
provoke; evoke; elicit; arouse; enkindle; kindle; fire; raise
Context examples:
arouse pity / raise a smile / evoke sympathy
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arouse"):
interest (excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of)
overcome; overpower; overtake; overwhelm; sweep over; whelm (overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli)
bruise; hurt; injure; offend; spite; wound (hurt the feelings of)
shame (cause to be ashamed)
discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)
anger (make angry)
excite (arouse or elicit a feeling)
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
fire up; heat; ignite; inflame; stir up; wake (arouse or excite feelings and passions)
prick (to cause a sharp emotional pain)
infatuate (arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way)
rekindle (arouse again)
draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.)
ask for; invite (increase the likelihood of)
strike a chord; touch a chord (evoke a reaction, response, or emotion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Stop sleeping
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
awake; come alive; arouse; awaken; wake; wake up; waken
Context example:
She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
"Arouse" entails doing...:
catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
conjure up; call down; bring up; invoke; conjure; call forth; arouse; put forward; evoke; stir; raise
Context examples:
raise the specter of unemployment / he conjured wild birds in the air / call down the spirits from the mountain
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arouse"):
bless (give a benediction to)
anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to be alert and energetic
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
energize; energise; perk up; brace; arouse; stimulate
Context examples:
Coffee and tea stimulate me / This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
affect (act physically on; have an effect upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arouse"):
cathect (inject with libidinal energy)
animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify (give new life or energy to)
invigorate; reinvigorate (impart vigor, strength, or vitality to)
animate; enliven; invigorate; liven; liven up (make lively)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Cause to become awake or conscious
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
waken; wake up; awaken; rouse; wake; arouse
Context examples:
He was roused by the drunken men in the street / Please wake me at 6 AM.
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arouse"):
reawaken (awaken once again)
bring around; bring back; bring round; bring to (return to consciousness)
call (rouse somebody from sleep with a call)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
To begin moving,
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
arouse; stir
Context example:
As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Stimulate sexually
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
sex; wind up; excite; turn on; arouse
Context example:
This movie usually arouses the male audience
Hypernyms (to "arouse" is one way to...):
excite; shake; shake up; stimulate; stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "arouse"):
tempt (try to seduce)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The performance is likely to arouse Sue
